...is, agreeable to the spirit of roan, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more ample variety, than can be found in the nature of things....Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have and by Mr. Alison and Mr. Knight, in their Treatises on Taste, to this principle! and they have each,...

...things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according...

...things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and • See Bishop Newton's Life of Milton. The biographer admits that Cambridge has produced a richer...

...things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...events of true history, have not that magnitude which satisfitth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and » See Bishop Newton's Life of Milton. The biographer...

...it, the world being, in proportion, inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according...

...it, the world being, in proportion, inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...events greater and more heroical: because true history propounded! the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...

...which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and that there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...variety, than can be found in the nature of things" i Where, in fine, is the art -creation that " doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the show...

...which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and that there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...variety, than can be found in the nature of things" 1 Where, in fine, is the art - creation that " doth raiae and erect the mind by submitting the show...

...deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul : by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according...

...deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according...